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Police say a 3-year-old New York City boy was left alone on a school bus for an entire six-hour school day.The bus driver and matron were arrested Thursday on charges including reckless endangerment and child endangerment.

Police say the bus workers overlooked the boy when dropping off children at a Bronx elementary school. He was stuck on the bus until his mother came to pick him up in the afternoon and discovered he had never arrived at school. Read more..

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Clinton and running back David Ruiz will look to beat JFK for the first time since 2001 Saturday afternoon. Photo by Ted Levin

By Zachary Braziller October 16, 2008

Forget about the playoff race and the mythological Bronx football title at stake. Ignore the two teams’ winning streaks on the line, three for each side. When FiveBoroSports.com PSAL No. 4 Clinton and No. 5 Kennedy, schools separated by less than two miles, meet Saturday pride will be on the line.

“The records don’t matter to us,” JFK coach Alex Vega said. “If you lose this game, you’ll be miserable for a full year until next year’s game.”

Even when one of the programs is suffering through down times, the games are close. In 2001, the Knights went 0-9, but their best performance was a 21-16 loss to the Governors. Clinton finished 2-7 in a injury-ravaged season last fall, but was right there with JFK until quarterback Peter Goodman went down in a loss, Clinton coach Howard Langley said, gave his young team momentum for this season.

“Let’s get it on today, let’s get it on right now,” Langley said in a phone interview minutes before practice Thursday. “We’re chomping at the bit. My guys don’t talk, but you can see it in their eyes in practice. You can see a little bit extra bounce. Matter of fact, I had to pull them back. They were over emphasizing everything.” Read more..

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Some residents in Riverdale say a rookie traffic agent is “filling her quota” by handing out bogus parking tickets. The angered drivers are demanding an NYPD investigation.

Robert Dickstein has been slapped with four parking tickets — each with a $115 fine. Not only are they expensive, Dickstein said they’re bogus.

“Not only did I never park here, but the street, as you can see, has no parking restriction,” Dickstein said.

Dickstein said his frustration turned to suspicion when he noticed each of the tickets had been issued by the same NYPD traffic agent.

“It’s an officer T. Flight,” Dickstein said. Read more..

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 Andy Pettitte wants to remain with the New York Yankees in 2009, though the pitcher and the franchise have yet to solidify a contract.

The Yankees have made it clear that Pettitte still factors into the franchise plans, despite his growing age.

Pettitte had a bit of a lackluster year, going 14-14 with a 4.54 ERA, and while retirement has crossed his mind, he wants to play in the new Yankee stadium. Read more..

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NIAGARA FALLS — A Niagara County grand jury has asked for evidence about the unlicensed bed-and-breakfast where a 12-year-old Bronx girl was staying when she drowned in the Niagara River during the summer.

Meanwhile, less than two months since the drowning, the City of Niagara Falls is prosecuting the woman who ran the facility on building code violations.

The city’s Building Inspections Department was served with a subpoena by the Niagara County district attorney’s office in late August, and city inspectors had given Eva Hedges until the end of September to bring the property up to code, according to city records obtained by The Buffalo News.

She has not, those records indicate.

As the legal proceedings move forward, a neighbor said Renaissance House, as the home at 722 Fourth St. had been known, hosted house guests last weekend despite a previous order by the city to cease operations as a bed-and-breakfast.

A subpoena ordered the city to produce documents before a grand jury beginning Aug. 26, according to city records. The documents included items related to construction and remodeling at Renaissance House, as well as any contractor work on the property.

Niagara County District Attorney Michael J. Violante, whose office sent investigators to the Fourth Street home about a week after 12-year-old Magdalena Lubowski went missing, did not return a call to comment.

Police said Hedges’ son, Timothy, allowed a group of 23 youths to travel more than 500 feet off a marked trail in the Niagara Gorge — the most difficult trail in the gorge — when Magdalena slipped off a rock and into the fast-moving rapids on Aug. 13.

Her body was found by two kayakers in the Lower Niagara River 10 days later.

Tom Scheira, who lives across the street from the Hedges’ home, said two families totaling five or six people, all adults, arrived to stay at the Renaissance House on Friday and have since left.

One of the families was driving a vehicle with Rhode Island license plates, Scheira said.

“These guys are really sneaky,” he said. Read more..

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